Tuesday, June 15, 2010

52nd Anniversary Card for My Parents Using Cricut Tie The Knot

My parents' 52nd wedding anniversary was yesterday so of course, I needed a card for the occasion! Since I show my mom all the cards I make, I needed to create a new one. My mom loves bold colors so I headed over to the Tie the Knot Cricut cartridge and cut out this hisbiscus flower on page pg. 32 at 3". When I was growing up in Miami, we had quite a few hot pink hisbiscus plants in our yard so I thought this would be appropriate. I used all the layers and cut an extra flower and popped that up alone. I LOVE that look! I added two pearls on the end to represent my parents.

My card is 6" x 6" and I went with this size because I knew I could make an envelope. I cut an extra flower for the outside and stitched around the edge. Paper is from Bo Bunny, while the envelope was cut with a DCWV text weight paper.

Inside, I added a plain green flower, with the "Happy Anniversary" stamped on it. The stamp is from a Papertrey Ink set.

Now, the burning question: how did I make an envelope to fit a 6" x 6" card using only a sheet of 10" x 10" paper? Well, I found this fantastic tutorial over on the Frugal Crafter's website! She rocks by the way and is seriously artistically talented! Also, she has such helpful tips on crafting more economically. She developed a way to use the Scor-Pal to create envelopes and to see how, check out her post HERE! This is a simple and easy tutorial and frankly, I am thrilled to see how I can make good looking, simple and quick square envelopes!

Gorgeous card and thank yuou so much for pointing in the direction of the tutorial! I always find my cards are too small and I can totally do this one and make them bigger to fit this envelope! Thank you!

How wonderful that your parents have had so many 52 wonderful years together. I know they will love the card--the colors are just happy and the hibiscus is lovely. Thanks for the info about the envelope too.

Oh, I just love your card! I dodn't know hibiscus was on Tie the Knot cart! I need that one now! I was just telling my sscrubby that I needed a cart with hibiscus, cause they are all over our yard and looking SO beautiful right now! Thanks for the link, I'm going to check it out now!

Congrats to your parents on #52! What a cute card you made them...can I ask, is the buckle on the ribbon cut from that cartridge too or is it something you have purchased? Thanks for showing us another great card idea!

Congrats to your parents. 52 years is quite impressive now days. I love the hibiscus too and usually have some setting in pots aroud our pool. I piull them into my little greenhouse in winter and usually am able t o keep them for 3-4 years.

What a wonderful card! How fantastic it is that your parents are celebrating 52 years! I love hearing stories like that!! Please extend my congratulations to them.Completely off topic now... Great nails!!

Hi Joy,The card you made was beautiful. I also just made an anniversary card last week for my in laws. They also celebrated their 52nd anniversary on June 9th. Isn't wonderful people can stay together that long.Keep up the great work, I enjoy your email.

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